Sometimes, time context is important. If we say we pushed an update yesterday, and that post ends up getting reblogged by someone a year later, “yesterday” might get interpreted very wrong and confuse quite a few people.
But we’ve fixed that now! The Timestamps extension now puts timestamps on reblogged original posts by default. You can say goodbye to reblogging old news with a feeling of urgency, and hello to realising that all million-note posts are 8 years or so old (without any extra clicks).
You can also extend this to show timestamps on all reblog comments, letting you see just how quickly those hilarious interactions take place or how long it took before someone else thought of a better punchline to a post. Data junkies of all types, this one’s for you.
We’ve also done up the preferences! Want to turn off reblog timestamps? Easy. Want to only have reblog timestamps? Just as easy! Go take a look!
As always, if you have any problems, questions or anything else to say about this update, our askbox and Discord server are open as usual, or you can open a GitHub issue if you’d rather!
Enjoy!
Tags:
#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #this update is fantastic and I highly recommend it #also I didn’t even realise until reading this that there’s an option to make *every* link in a reblog chain show a timestamp #(as opposed to just OP + the last link) #so I turned that on and now it’s even more amazing
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